Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned him. he was immediately surrounded by friends and neighbors, was buying round after round of drinks. Hours later he remembered he had not paid for the cup of coffee he was reaching for when he was still a poor coal man. He led a procession back to the bistro, paid for coffee and another round of drinks. Exulted he: "We shall sell the coal business. I never liked it anyway. My wife and I will make...
...Union did after its organization in 1883 was to advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged best in the Atlantic district...
Back of Mr. Dodge's rage lay the subject of superchargers or blowers, to increase engine power. Long has he wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge...
...Manhattan's gloomy Criminal Courts Building one day last September Lawyer John William Davis uprose to outline to a jury the defense of one of the most complex cases the onetime presidential nominee had ever handled. He began by setting out eight paper cups and a tumbler of water on a table. While he described the involved dealings of defunct Bank of United States, he poured the water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that...
...customs have one last hope for a revival of the old days, i.e., the return of beer and ale which may engender a new congeniality unknown to our generation. Our over-sophisticated "veneer" may be washed away by libations of "brown October ale," and the imbibition of the cup that cheers. Bring on "Handsome Dan," turtle-neck Y-sweaters, peg top trousers, bicycles, mustaches, and "Bright College Years" once more. The Yale News...